Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations
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In a similar vein, Samuel Bottomley writes compellingly that during the most recent intense period, North American integration has had only minimal impact on Canadian political institutions such as federalism, voting patterns, and the executive role of government. [...] Canada seems to have carved out its own trajectory that some would describe as the northern model, an apposite term that accounts for larger and socially significant redistributive programs such as old age pensions and income supplement, equalization transfers to provinces, universal health care, employment insurance, and the child tax credit, to name only a few.
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Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations
POLITICS IN NORTH AMERICA: REDEFINING CONTINENTAL RELATIONS YASMEEN ABU-LABAN, RAHDA JHAPPAN, AND FRANÇOIS ROCHER (EDS.) PETERBOROUGH: BROADVIEW PRESS, 2007
Ever since the signing of NAFTA more than a decade ago, scholars and researchers have been fascinated by the North American idea. It has taken the better part of a decade and a mountain of research for scholars and practitioners to figure out, substantively and institutionally, the emerging complexity of continental ...See the full content of this document
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